Ulrich Ulriksen wrote:
Not great, not a disaster. Dropped Holloway off too early, the split from Weiss was a problem - lesser sprinters would have cratered to 10th though. I can live with 3rd.

Hopefully he will more consistent than the others. But would really have liked to see some time gaps to reduce the field a little.

I would say thanks for the report except for that outrageous swipe at Baltimore in the intro:

(1) Baltimore had a team stolen from it long before Cleveland
(2) Baltimore repeatedly put forward a strong expansion bid but were screwed by the NFL for "sexier" cities like Jacksonville despite the fact Baltimore had a much stronger tradition as a pro football town. I am pretty sure if we surveyed 1000 NFL fans today 90% of them who don't live in Jacksoville would rather have a team in Baltimore. I feel for Cleveland but the NFL left Baltimore no choice.
(3) Unlike when Baltimore lost their team the NFL went out of their way to make it good for Cleveland.

AbhishekLFC wrote:
Ligthart is not in the results. Missed it yesterday

AbhishekLFC wrote:

I think he was omitted because of the 77 PCT TT rider entered in a C2 race, which is my fault. By that logic, there's another 79 TT rider who shouldn't be in the race either I think, but is still there.

jph27 wrote:


That would be it - the confusion was as the participation file I used to write the preview had Ligthart in it, although the startlist didn't.

Gretsch is 77TT so is eligible despite his 79 PRL, which is probably something that needs to be looked at for next season if we continue with the same C2 eligibility rules. As the rules currently stand I believe Chavanne could have been entered here for example, despite being one of the best prologue riders full stop.